Disclaimer: I do not own Glee or any of the recognizable characters, they belong to Fox. Angel is mine though... don't touch her.
The two songs featured in this chapter belong to The Proclaimers and Katy Perry.
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"Tina?" Angel asked, the second the other girl answered her phone.
"What's up, Angel?" Tina asked, wondering what had stressed Angel out so much.
"Can I come over? I really need to talk to someone," Angel asked.
"Sure," Tina said with a knowing smile, everyone in the Glee Club knew that Angel and Puck had had their date last night so she could only assume that Angel wanted to talk about Puck, "Come on over."
"Thanks!" Angel said before hanging up her phone and walking up Tina's front walkway to ring the doorbell.
"So I'm really confused," Tina laughed as she answered the door, "You just called me to ask if you could come over."
"Yeah," Angel sighed, putting her hands in her back pockets, "I kind of called you from your mailbox."
Tina laughed, "Well come on in, I assume you want to talk about your date with Puck last night?" she asked as she turned around and led Angel toward her bedroom.
"How did you know I went on a date with him?" Angel asked, surprised.
"We were all there when he bought the date with you," Tina pointed out patiently, "And I was leaving the school just in time to see you throw your shoes at him on Friday night."
"Oh," Angel said slowly, "Right. But how did you know it was last night?"
"The only thing Glee Club likes more than singing is inter-glee gossip," Tina explained as she sat down on her bed and nodded to it, letting Angel know that she could sit down too, "Puck told Matt, who told Santana, who told Brittney, who told Kurt, who told everyone."
"Great to know that things can stay private around here," Angel giggled as she sat down on the bed, "Well at least I don't have to go through the, hey I went on a date with Puck last night, crap."
"So how was it?" Tina asked, with a smile.
"Oh no," Angel laughed, shaking her head, "I'm not going to tell you what happened just so you can turn around and tell everyone in Glee."
"I would tell you that I won't tell anyone else, but that's a lie," Tina said with a joking smile.
"Exactly," Angel said, leaning in and placing her head on Tina's shoulder, "But I will tell you that it was a really good date."
"You know you're dying to tell me more about it," Tina laughed, "And it's only a matter of time before you cave and just tell me; even though you know that I'm going to tell the rest of the club."
"Fine," Angel laughed, knowing that Tina was right, talking about Puck had been why she had come over to Tina's anyway.
"I knew it!" Tina shrieked, clapping her hands together, "Now spill, Harris!"
"I totally didn't think it was going to be good," Angel said, shaking her head, "It was my first date, ever, and it was with Puck. I mean, I didn't even think that he knew how to date."
"Does he?" Tina asked, honestly wondering that herself, Puck had always been more about the sex than about the dating.
"Does he ever," Angel laughed, "he took me out of town for Italian. He held open doors, cleaned his truck, lifted me up into the truck since I'm so short, and he didn't even try to touch me inappropriately."
Tina laughed, "Was the date awkward?" she asked, seriously wondering how it went.
"Not at all," Angel said shaking her head, "It was great, and so much fun. It was honestly, the best first date I could have imagined."
"It sounds like the best first date I've ever heard about," Tina admitted.
"And when we got back to my house we sat in his truck and just talked. I've never felt so comfortable with anyone besides Mike. Did you know that he has a little sister?"
"Mike?" Tina asked, "Why do you sound surprised about that? You've known Mike for like a year right?"
"No, not Mike," Angel laughed, shaking her head, "Puck. Puckerman has a sister, her name's Sarah."
"And that's important because?" Tina asked, trying to get the significance of it all.
"It's not really," Angel said with a shrug, "It's just a fact that I didn't know before and it made me realize something. I don't know anything about Puck."
"Sure you do," Tina said with a smile, "You know that he's in Glee and that he plays sports."
"Yeah, yeah," Angel said, shaking her head, "And I know that he got Quinn pregnant and used to throw slushies in people's faces. But besides that, I don't know anything."
"That's all anyone really knows about him," Tina said with a shrug, "Well that and now we know that he has a little sister."
Angel smiled, "Yup, but after I found out that he had a little sister, he walked me over to my door and then the date was over."
"Why does it sound like you're upset about that?" Tina asked, picking up on the depressed tone in Angel's voice, "It sounds like it was an amazing date."
"I gave him several chances to kiss me," Angel whispered softly, "And he didn't."
"Well did you want him to kiss you?" Tina asked.
"Not at first," Angel muttered, "But then once I had thought about it I realized that I wouldn't have minded it. But he didn't."
"I'm sorry," Tina whispered, placing her hand gently on Angel's shoulder, "Are you okay?"
"What's wrong with me?" Angel asked, turning her head to look at Tina, "Why didn't he want to kiss me?"
Tina sighed and shifted uncomfortably, "I don't really know what to tell you," she said softly, "Maybe you should try talking to a guy?"
"Who?" Angel asked, "I can't talk to Brad about this, I mean he's my brother."
"How about Mike?" Tina asked, "He's not your brother and you're really close to him."
"He doesn't like talking about things like that," Angel said with a shrug, "He says it makes things awkward and that I need to find a girl friend to talk about this stuff with."
"But you've never had to talk about something like this before with him," Tina said, confused about how Angel knew that Mike found it awkward.
"I tried to ask him about it earlier today," Angel shrugged, "But the second I said date and Puck he freaked out and said to go find a girl. And now you're telling me to go find a boy. I'm never going to find out what's wrong with me and why he didn't want to kiss me."
"Maybe you're just talking to the wrong boy," Tina suggested, "Finn and Puck used to be friends. He probably knows why Puck didn't want to kiss you. You should ask him."
"That's a good idea," Angel said with a slow nod, "I'm gonna do that," she said as she typed out a quick text telling Finn that she needed to talk to him during their first period class on Monday, "Thanks Tina."
"Anytime," Tina said with a soft smile, "Now, let's go make cookies or something."
"Sounds like a plan to me," Angel giggled, allowing Tina to grab her arm and pull her downstairs toward the kitchen.
"So what's up?" Finn asked the next morning when he slid into his seat next to Angel in their history class.
"I need to talk to you about my date with Puck," Angel whispered in response, leaning closer to Finn to make sure that no one else heard what they were talking about, or more specifically who they were talking about.
"I'm not sure if I'm the best person to talk to about this," Finn whispered back, "I mean Puck and I aren't really friends anymore."
"But I have no one else to talk to," Angel moaned, "I can't talk to my brother, Mike told me to find a girl friend, Tina didn't know what to say so she told me to talk to you about it."
Finn sighed, as much as he didn't want to talk about Puck, he could tell that Angel really was freaking out about something and she felt like she had no one else to talk to about it. "So what's going on?" he asked, trying to ignore the fact that he smiled when he saw her eyes light up with happiness.
"Okay," Angel whispered, leaning in even closer to Finn, "So the date was absolutely amazing, I couldn't have asked for a better one, but I must have screwed up somehow or something."
"Why do you say that?" Finn asked, trying to imagine how Angel could have messed something up and coming up short.
"He didn't kiss me good night," Angel whispered simply, surprising Finn with the fact that she didn't try to beat around the bush, "And then he just said good night and practically ran back to his truck. I thought it was a really good date, but I must have messed it up somehow."
"I find that hard to believe," Finn said with a friendly smile.
"I'm not perfect," Angel pointed out, "I'm kind of crazy and I make a lot of mistakes."
"I'm sure you do," Finn said with a nod, "And, believe me; I know that you're crazy, Mike's told us some stories."
"Then why is it so hard to believe that I messed something up?" Angel asked, biting her lip nervously and looking confused.
"Because Puck doesn't date," Finn pointed out, simply, "I'm pretty sure that he doesn't even know how to."
"Oh, believe me," Angel whispered, "He knows how to date."
"I didn't need to know that," Finn laughed, "But thanks. So what do you think you did to mess it up?"
"I don't know," Angel sighed, "And that's the problem. He said I wasn't bad at the whole dating thing, but he didn't want to kiss me. Am I that hideous?"
"Angel," Finn sighed, "You know that you're not hideous. Don't be ridiculous."
"I know I'm not ugly," Angel sighed, "But then what is it? What's wrong with me? There has to be something that is absolutely disgusting about me if Puck, the guy who will jump anything with boobs didn't want to kiss me."
"Well that's true," Finn joked until he saw the look on Angel's face, "Chill, Ang, I was just joking. Did you ever think that maybe it was something that's wrong with Puck and not you?"
"What could be wrong with Puck?" Angel asked, "Every girl at school secretly wants him."
"He doesn't know how to date," Finn pointed out, "And he's a player, as a guy I'm all for that, but according to Rachel that means that there's something in his life that he's not happy about and he's trying to fill that hole with girls."
"Or maybe he just hasn't found the right one yet," Angel pointed out, "I'm not saying that I'm here, but I don't like psychobabble."
Finn laughed at the disgusted look on Angel's face, "I wish I could help, Angel," he whispered, "But Puck and I really haven't talked since the whole Quinn thing; I don't know what goes on in his head anymore."
"I know," Angel said with a nod, "I was just hoping that I would be able to find out what was wrong with me without having to ask Puck myself."
"You're going to have to ask Puck yourself," Finn pointed out, "I'm sorry."
"Hoping you would know was a long shot anyway," Angel admitted with a smile, "But thanks for trying to help me out."
Finn opened his mouth to say "You're welcome," but was cut off by the history teacher, Mr. Turner, "Hudson, Harris! Do you have something to share with the entire class?" he called from the front of the room.
"No Sir," Angel replied with a quick, nervous shake of her head.
"Well then," Mr. Turner said harshly, "I suggest that both of you keep your mouths shut. Am I understood?"
"Yes, Sir!" Finn and Angel exclaimed in unison, turning to briefly smile at each other before getting back to taking notes.
"Hey Puck?" Angel called, catching up with him in the hallway before Glee, "Can I talk to you about something?"
"Sure," Puck said with a nod as he turned around and followed her down the hall way, "What's up?"
"I wanted to talk about our date," Angel said, shifting nervously, "Is that okay?"
"Sure," Puck nodded, sticking his hands in his pockets, "What do you want to talk about?"
"I just, it's really stupid actually, forget I said anything," Angel rambled, "Nevermind."
"Angel," Puck laughed, reaching out and putting his hands on her shoulders, "Calm down and just tell me what's going on. Why are you so nervous?"
"I just, it's really stupid, but why didn't you kiss me at the end of our date?"
Puck laughed, "You're all nervous and upset about that?" he asked, that was the last thing he had expected to come out of her pretty little mouth.
"You're avoiding the question," Angel pointed out, "Why can't anybody just answer the question?"
"You've asked other people about this?" Puck asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, I tried to talk to Mike about it, but he wouldn't listen. So I asked Tina who told me to ask Finn about it and Finn told me to ask you. I was honestly trying to avoid asking you at all costs."
"Wow," Puck breathed, "You really are crazy," he added, shaking his head and laughing.
"This isn't funny," Angel cried, stomping her foot and crossing her arms over her chest, "Stop laughing! And stop avoiding the question! Why didn't you kiss me?"
Puck sighed; he didn't really know how to answer this question. He could lie and say that he hadn't wanted to kiss her. He could say that he didn't deserve to take her first kiss and that would have sent her straight into his bed, which is what he had wanted when he first met her – but he wasn't sure if he wanted that anymore. He could tell her the truth which was that he didn't want to mess things up between them so he took it slow – but who would believe that, he wasn't even sure if he believed it.
So he settled for a half lie.
"I didn't think you wanted me to," he said with a shrug, "I mean you made such a big deal about me taking your first date so I figured you wouldn't have wanted me to take your first kiss too." He looked down at Angel's crestfallen face, "Did you want me to kiss you?" he asked, lifting his hand so that he could brush some of her hair out of her eyes.
Angel crossed her arms over her chest again, but did not step away from Puck's hand. He smiled at that. She sighed as she settled for her own lie to answer his question, "I didn't want you to kiss me, but it would have been nice to know that I was worth a try."
Puck gently cupped Angel's cheek in his hand for a brief second before he began laughing, "You really are crazy. Absolutely crazy."
"Am I ugly?" Angel asked, "Or is there something utterly disgusting about my personality? Is that why you didn't want to kiss me?"
"Would you stop?" Puck asked, laughter still in his voice, "There's nothing wrong with you, I just didn't want to ruin your first kiss."
Angel huffed, but then she smiled, "Thank you," she whispered, reaching up and wrapping her arms around Puck's neck, "Thank you."
"What are you thanking me for?" Puck chuckled as he wrapped his arms around her waist and gave her a brief squeeze before pulling away, "I didn't do anything."
"You cared about how I felt and how I would feel," Angel explained, "You cared about me, thank you."
"Well then, you're welcome."
"So we're friends?" Angel asked, looking up at Puck through her long lashes.
"Friends," Puck said with a smile although he wanted to be more, he just wasn't sure if that was really what Angel had wanted, or if she had been telling the truth when she said she just wanted to know if she was worth the effort.
"Okay," Angel said with a smile before patting Puck's shoulder, "We should probably head over to Glee Club, huh?" she asked, starting to walk toward the choir room.
"Glee, right," Puck agreed, following Angel into the choir room.
"Hey guys, nice of you to join us," Will said as the two of them walked into the room.
"Ten bucks says they were kissing in the hallway," Matt whispered to the other Glee Clubbers.
"Shut up!" Mike hissed, "I don't need to think about that!"
"Sorry Mr. Shue," Angel said, looking down at her feet, "What'd we miss?"
"We're taking a break from the Disney songs this week," Will told Puck and Angel.
"I don't think we should do that," Rachel said, crossing her arms over her chest, "We should be working on stuff for sectionals if we're not doing Disney songs, but no one asked me."
"Anyway," Will added, "I've paired everyone up with someone else that they wouldn't usually sing with. Angel you're with Finn and Puck you're paired with Tina. You'll be doing two songs this week; one sung by a girl and one sung by a guy. But here's the catch, the girl in the group has to sing the guy song and the guy in the group has to sing the girl song."
"But all songs sung by girls are about liking boys and stuff," Puck pointed out as he made his way to his seat.
"That's the challenge," Will said excitedly, "Each group has to find a way to change the songs into something that can be sung by the opposite gender."
"Well this is going to be fun," Angel muttered as she sat down next to Finn, "What kind of songs are you thinking about?" she asked.
"Well I figured that you could choose the song that you were going to sing and I'd pick the one I'd sing."
"That works," Angel said with a nod, "I already know what song I want to sing."
"Mr. Shue said that you could sing the chorus of my song and I could do the same with yours, I don't know if that'll work though, it really depends on what songs we choose."
"Finn?" Angel questioned, "Why are you so nervous?"
"I don't know," Finn admitted, "This is just, it's a really weird assignment and I don't want to look like a fool or something."
"Because you definitely didn't look like a fool when you guys did Gaga last year," Angel laughed.
"How do you know about that?" Finn asked, surprised.
"First of all, I was at McKinley by then, I was the one who did Mike's Kiss make-up, thank you very much. And secondly, Kurt loves making Glee scrap books."
Finn nodded, "He did take the Gaga thing a little too seriously."
"I thought it was really cute," Angel admitted with a shy smile, "The only thing I love more than Mike is a gay guy who is totally okay with being one of the girls."
Finn shrugged, "If you say so," he muttered before changing the subject, "So what song were you thinking about singing?"
"Have you ever heard 'Five Hundred Miles' by the Proclaimers?" Angel asked, "It's a pretty old song," she added when Finn shook his head, "But it's really sweet and would be really easy to turn it into a girl song. What about you?"
"You can't laugh," Finn said sternly.
"I promise, I won't laugh," Angel said, holding her hand up.
"California Girls," Finn said with a nod.
"But that's sung by the Beach Boys," Angel said slowly, wondering how stupid Finn really was, "They were a boy band."
"Not the one by Katy Perry," Finn said, letting Angel know that he had expected her to think he was talking about the one by the Beach Boys, "And you can even sing the chorus for that one, because that's the only part of the song that I couldn't quite figure out how to change."
"Sounds like a plan," Angel said with a smile, "I honestly can't wait until Thursday, I like this assignment."
"You would," Finn said fondly as the two of them left the choir room.
"Okay," Will said at Thursday's Glee practice, "First up are Finn and Angel. Are you two ready?"
"You know it, Mr. Shue," Angel laughed as she and Finn stood up and walked to the front of the classroom, "First up, we're going to sing my song," she said, "It's an old song that some of you might not know, but I love it. It's called 'Five Hundred Miles' by the Proclaimers."
"[Angel:]When I wake up, well I know I'm gonna be,
I'm gonna be the girl who wakes up next you
When I go out, yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the girl who goes along with you
If I get drunk, well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the girl who gets drunk next to you
And if I haver up, whatever that means,
I'm gonna be the girl who's havering to you
[both:]But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
[Angel:]Just to be the girl who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door
[Angel:]When I'm working, yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the girl who's working hard for you
And when the money, comes in for the work I do
I'll pass almost every penny on to you
[A(f):]When I come home(When I come home), well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the girl who comes back home to you
And if I grow-old,(When I grow-old) well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the girl who's growing old with you
[both:]But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
[Angel:]Just to be the girl who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door
[A(F):]da da da (da da da)
da da da (da da da)
[both:]Da Da Da Dun Diddle Un Diddle Un Diddle Uh Da
[A(F):]da da da (da da da)
da da da (da da da)
[both:]Da Da Da Dun Diddle Un Diddle Un Diddle Uh Da
[Angel:]When I'm lonely, well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the girl who's lonely without you
And when I'm dreaming, well I know I'm gonna dream
I'm gonna Dream about the time when I'm with you
[A(F):]When I go out(When I go out), well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the girl who goes along with you
And when I come home(When I come home), yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the girl who comes back home with you
I'm gonna be the girl who's coming home with you
[both:]But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
[Angel:]Just to be the girl who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door
[A(F):]da da da (da da da)
da da da (da da da)
[both:]Da Da Da Dun Diddle Un Diddle Un Diddle Uh Da
[A(F):]da da da (da da da)
da da da (da da da)
[both:]Da Da Da Dun Diddle Un Diddle Un Diddle Uh Da
[both:]And I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
[Angel:]Just to be the girl who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door."
Puck smiled and clapped with the rest of the kids in the club, it was obvious from the way Angel had been jumping around and dancing that she had had a lot of fun up there with the song and it was honestly a good song.
"My song doesn't really need an introduction," Finn said with a shrug as the band began to play the music.
"[Finn:] I know a place where the grass is really greener
Warm, wet and wild, there must be something in the water
Sipping gin and juice, laying underneath the palm trees
The boys break their necks trying to creep a little sneak peek
[Finn:]You could travel the world
But nothing comes close to the golden coast
Once you party with them, you'll be falling in love
[Angel:] Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[Angel:] California girls, we're unforgettable
Daisy Dukes, bikinis on top
Sun-kissed skin, so hot will melt your popsicle
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
California girls, we're undeniable
Fine, fresh, fierce, we got it on lock
West coast represent, now put your hands up
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[Finn:] Sex on a beach they don't mind sand in their stilettos
they freak in my jeep, Snoop Doggy dog on the stereo
[Finn:]You could travel the world
But nothing comes close to the golden coast
Once you party with us, you'll be falling in love
[Angel:] Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[Angel:] California girls, we're unforgettable
Daisy Dukes, bikinis on top
Sun-kissed skin, so hot will melt your popsicle
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
California girls, we're undeniable
Fine, fresh, fierce, we got it on lock
West Coast represent, now put your hands up
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh."
"I don't really know how to respond to that," Will said after a moment of complete silence once they had finished Finn's song.
"I do," Mercedes interrupted, "That was tight!"
"Don't get me wrong," Will added, "It was great, just not something I pictured you singing, Finn."
"I'm trying to come out of my shell a bit, Mr. Shue," Finn said with a smile.
Angel smiled and leaned in, raising her hand to pinch Finn's cheek, "You were great," she cooed in a joking baby voice before walking back to her seat and laughing at the bright red color that was spreading across Finn's cheeks.
Puck couldn't help, but clench his jaw and fists when he saw that, "Hey?" Quinn hissed, "What's wrong? You were the one that went on a date with her. I heard it went well. What's the deal?"
"She wants to be just friends," Puck hissed back, "And stupidly, I agreed."
"That's easy to fix," Quinn said with a wave of her hand, "All you have to do is make her see that being friends is the last thing in the world that she wants."
"And how do I do that?" Puck, all but, growled.
"You're smart, and you can occasionally be charming," Quinn said with a smile, "You'll figure it out."
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